In Congress, Saturday, March 16, 1776.
Subtitle: In times of impending calamity and distress ... The Congress therefore ... do earnestly recommend, that Friday, the seventeenth day of May next, be observed by the said colonies as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer ...
Contributors: Massachusetts. General Court.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15133.
Publisher: Printed by Benjamin Edes
Published: 1776
Place of publication: [Watertown, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Broadsides.
Notes: Resolution of the Continental Congress passed Mar. 16, 1776.

Signed: By order of Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thompson [i.e., Thomson], secretary.

Followed by: Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay. In Council, April 3, 1776. Read and accepted, and ordered that a suitable number be printed ... In the House of Representatives, April 4, 1776. Read and concurr'd. ...

Imprint supplied by Evans.

Printed area measures 36.7 x 22.9 cm.

Evans 15133.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 1949.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15133).